Monday, May 7, 2012

What's cooking in the EDT kitchen? - May 7

This is the latest weekly blog post designed to let you know what's coming in the next version of EDT.  In case you missed it, read last week's post.

Here's what's been happening:


IDE Usability
  • Update searching and indexing for EGLARs
  • Implement a read-only editor for files in EGLARs
Extensibility
  • Prototype extensible validation
Language
  • Support for foreach loop on arrays
  • Support for 'super' (to access an overridden function or field, or a super-type's constructor)
  • Add syntax for new kinds of literals
  • Add new bit-manipulation operators
  • Update testcases after the latest language changes
Other
  • Investigate integrating with new mobile technologies
  • Support the 2012 IBM Rational EGL Programming contest, open to university students in China http://www.ibm.com/software/cn/rational/eglcontest/ (the page is in Chinese)
  • Prepare for the test phase of 0.8.1 Milestone 1
Matt

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